taste > skills
taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI where so much of skills-based productivity is offloaded to compute.

makes me think about the development of taste, and how we nurture taste for the next gen of humans.

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I can’t tell what the frame of reference is here (I’m guessing UX or creativity-related occupations?), so as far as this broad generalization goes, I have to disagree. In at least my and my clients’ line of work, skills matter, taste doesn’t (beyond dressing properly for the job).

Strangely enough, it’s indeed not a phrase I’ve ever heard. It’s usually:

☑️ bad — landing is all over the news
☑️ good — everybody walked away
☑️ great — everybody walked away AND we get to reuse the plane

So no one ever said “the pilot landed the plane so tastefully”?